Category Archives: sport

It is a great privilege to have been appointed Honorary Curator for Kent County Cricket Club. I’ve been working with the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust for the past couple of years and now join the Club itself to direct the caring and sharing of their museum and archive collections. Our vision is a collections experience at the Canterbury ground, but in the meantime there is plenty of collections management to keep me and the team busy. I will continue to vary my work with freelance projects.

Many congratulations to friends and colleagues at the Silverstone Heritage Project, the BRDC Archive and Mather Design on their Stage 2 HLF pass. Plans are now moving quickly towards the Spring 2019 opening date for the Centre, not just building and fitting out, but gathering in those private collections that are such an important part of British racing heritage. More details at http://www.silverstone.co.uk/about/silverstone-heritage-experience/

I’ve been helping out the recently established KCCC Heritage Trust with curatorial advice on their collections. Care and cataloguing are the priorities and they have a great collection to share more widely. It was a privilege to handle material like the original 1876 scorebook for WG Grace’s 344 against Kent – the first ever score over 300 and his highest. There are many memories of the 1970s glory years to bring a tear to the eye of us Kent fans, but also an eye on contemporary collecting.

Mather are designing the new 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sport Museum in Doha and I’ve been helping with the content development. That’s meant researching the story of different sports from all around the world, some familiar and loved (probably a bit too much cricket in there), others less known. Camel racing, anyone?